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Toast on Toast
- Cautionary tales and candid advice
- Narrated by: Matt Berry - as Steven Toast
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
In Toast on Toast - part memoir, part "how to act" manual - Steven Toast draws on his vast and varied experiences, providing the reader with an invaluable insight into his journey from school plays to RADA and from "It's a Right Royal Knockout" to the Colony Club.
Along the way he reveals the secrets of his success. He discloses how to brush up on and expand your technical and vocal skills, how to nail a professional voiceover, and how to deal with difficult work experience staff in a recording studio. He also reveals the dangers of typecasting, describes the often ruthless struggle for 'top billing', and shares many awesome nuggets of advice.
The end result is a book that will inspire and educate anyone who wants to tread the floorboards. It will also inform (and entertain) anybody who simply wants to discover what a jobbing actor's life is actually like.
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- Sophie
- 11-11-15
Helpless with laughter!
Matt Berry as the irrepressible actor Steven Toast brings his shockingly candid and "autobiography" to life. Berry's performance is brilliantly sustained and hysterically funny. Toast is a wondrous creation. This audiobook is s must for all fans of the CH4 TV series. For large parts of the book I was literally helpless with laughter. I had to switch it off while driving for fear of crashing. Whilst listening with headphones on the train I got funny looks from fellow passengers as tears of laughter rolled down my face. Yes, it really was that funny! I loved it!
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- PandaBegs2Differ
- 24-12-15
A Quite Extraordinary Insight by Stephen Toast
Would you consider the audio edition of Toast on Toast to be better than the print version?
Well of course, I have neither the time nor the inclination to turn pages myself.
Who was your favorite character and why?
What character? When? I had a kitten I was particularly fond off as a boy? What relevance does this have to anything?
Which scene did you most enjoy?
I'm sorry I really don't know what relevance this has either and if you think I will enable you to live vicariously through others then you have another think coming! Really quite inappropriate.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
That's more like it.
Yes, you have no choice really as the author really is rather compelling. His voice has a most agreeable timbre too and I may invite him to dinner as I feel he would make a most entertaining guest and/or sidekick.
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I recently attended my son’s nativity play and, having concluded I could do a far better job myself, decided I really must consider a career in acting as I suspect I have an untapped natural gift. Fortuitously I stumbled upon this audiobook by Stephen Toast and immediately purchased it simply on the strength of the author’s fine physique and rather elegant moustache. I must confess to not having being aware of Mr Toast previously, though I am informed I may have attended a performance by him at the Dundee Repertory Theatre some years back (I’m afraid it was such an extraordinarily hot evening that I was forced to partake of quite extraordinary amounts of lager and whisky in order to keep myself hydrated, and as a side-effect was absolutely bladdered and have no recall).
Mr Toast’s book is not only undoubtedly an invaluable guide to my newly-chosen profession but he also shares some quite brilliant insights with you, the reader. His views on NHS reform and BBC funding show a man whose time has come and a mind that is not afraid to defy the limits of convention. To my mind he is to be applauded for his works both on-stage and off. It is rare to find things of genuine value and, dare I say it, beauty in this modern world. However this book is such a rarity and has become one of my most treasured possessions , second only to a fine art-nouveaux sculpture of a cherub bought for me in Mayfair when I was just a slip of a lad by a friend of my father.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-11-15
The second best moustache in showbusiness.
Advice and anecdotes from mediocre actor and self-proclaimed 'star of stage and screen' Steven Toast. Toast himself brings this ghostwritten tripe to life with his thankfully unique vocal style.
He's no Ray Purchase, is he?
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- J Alderson
- 22-01-17
Finished in one sitting
This is the first time I'd ever heard of Steven Toast but loved Matt in The IT Crowd so thought I'd give this a go as it was on the daily deal. I was not disappointed!
This book is very, very funny and I'll definitely listen to it again.
I just wish it was longer!
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- Mark
- 25-11-15
He really knows his Acting onions
Would you listen to Toast on Toast again? Why?
Absolutely. It's essential listening for the unemployed actor and or the full time employee stuck on a zero hours contract. It made my spirit sore and my sides soar....no hold on
Who was your favorite character and why?
All of them....Fancy Alexander sounds robust....and Rebecca Banana sounds hot also
Any additional comments?
Buy this and listen to it.
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- Mr KP DUNSTAN
- 26-09-19
Great Performace
Toast reminds me of a drunk Patrick Stewart. Toast can probably handle his liquer, Stewart however can get a little lairy after a whiskey. At our last meeting I found him jumping around a hotel lobby wearing in nothing but a vest and pair of loose fitting Y fronts. Living up to his romany heritage Stewart was looking for a bare knuckle fight with anybody who was willing to meet his challenge, "Make it f**king so" he kept saying. "Fight me, make it f**king so". However he soon tired and fell asleep in a feotal position on a small chaise. The staff recommended leaving him to sleep it off, they'd become accustomed to it. Toast is a strong man who we can all admire. He knows what he wants, and sometimes gets it. Great story, highly recommended, excellently delivered.
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- Scritty
- 20-01-17
Matt Berry is a pleasure to listen to.
Over the top in places. Toast gives away more than he thinks about his own rumbling psyche as he gives an hilarious potted history of his rise to fame.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-05-16
Toast on Toast is an absolutely sublime
It is a absolutely sublime telling of Steven Toast's tall tales from Matt Barry's beloved character. Everything from his sheer pomposity to his ridiculous and wild claims are at the very least amusing and more often than not hilarious. on numerous occasions Toast says things so wildly ludicrous that both took me aback and had me laughing heartily in public.
Consider in that Toast is a fictional character much of what he describes from his life seems to ring with some truth of what being an actor is like, especially one such as Toast.
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- PM
- 12-01-17
Quite good
Not as funny as the television series but worth a punt if you're a big fan
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- James Young
- 14-12-16
Toast at his finest
Fantastic for fans of the show. Matt Berry's narration is superb. Even has Clem Fandango.
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- Stanley McHale
- 18-11-16
Glorious performance from Matt Ber-Ray.
You have to be a fan of course, but if hours of listening to Toast's timbre is your idea of heaven then welcome to paradise. Worth the cash for the role call of ludicrously great character names alone.
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- Michael S Picken
- 20-01-20
Just get it
If you enjoyed Toast of London you will love this. If you didn't well, I don't know what's wrong with you.
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- Wyatt
- 20-07-19
Hello Steven, can you hear me? It’s Clem Fandango
Absolutely supeeerrb. Just as good as the show on the televissón! Steven Toast does it again
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- skaginc
- 16-04-18
Ray Bloody Purchase!
Would you consider the audio edition of Toast on Toast to be better than the print version?
Nothing compares to Toast actually speaking his own words.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Toast! Because he IS Toast!
Which character – as performed by Matt Berry - as Steven Toast – was your favorite?
Toast!
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Have you met Toast?
Any additional comments?
Toast!
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- KB
- 07-03-16
Fans of TOAST OF LONDON will love it
The incomparable Matt Berry reads as Steven Toast and it is just as hysterical as the television show.
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- Dawn W
- 25-10-22
If you don't love this, then SLING YOUR HOOK
If you love Matt Berry's plummy voice with his distinctive and hilarious pronunciation; if you love Toast of London, The IT Crowd, and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace; and if you love British humor, then you will LOVE Toast on Toast. I have listened to it many times. I even play it when I go to bed. Berry's rich baritone soothes me right to sleep!
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- Gevin Huey
- 05-02-16
Matt Berry is a joy to listen to
a superb narration delivered in character. quite humerus. Enthusiastically recommended. is deserving of repeat listenings.
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- Paul D.
- 19-11-23
Matt Berry's incomparable voice
Toast is an interesting character. He just lets things happen to him and rolls with the punches, but he's
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- Anonymous User
- 04-09-23
Well written. Extremely educational.
As I clearly stated above, this audio reading was found to be VERY well written, and EXPERTLY performed. It is so rare that we come across such a pure voice that is so perfectly suited to speak on the passions of being an A- Class celebrity Actorrrr.
Side note*
Upon finishing the book, I am pleased to say, that as I rightfully suspected, Ray Purchase is indeed a certified wanker, and should be met with the strong arm of the justice.
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- Ayame Nelson
- 08-04-23
Keep in mind, I'm not British.
I'd listen to Matt Berry read the phone book. Some of the references were over my head, I'm sad to say, but it's a delightful book even for an uncouth and under cultured American such as myself.
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